Archives - 05 November 2017, Sunday

Just over a week ago, United Airlines set a new distance record among U.S. airlines flying to or from the U.S., by launching nonstop service between Los Angeles International and Singapore . Aircraft flying west often face headwinds, which makes the 8,700-mile trip to Singapore's Chan...

We presented the work of the German photographer Carsten Witte previously. After Sydney, London and Munich, he chose to present us, in his own way, the Singapore architecture. He continues his Deconstruction series by photographing building as they were shaking. He mixes reflections a...

IN TWO short years, Singapore has zipped into pole position in the fintech space, challenging rivals such as London in drawing intellectual and funding capital into the city-state with its open adoption of new technology and more broadly, innovation. The strategy, led by the Monetary ...

Financial markets • 5 November 2017 #ParadisePapers: time to clean up the offshore financial havens The ‘Paradise Papers’ revelations published on 5 November by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its partners show how the rich and powerful around the ...

Riot police blocking protesters yesterday, during a rally against open-cast brown coal mining of Garzweiler, north-west of Cologne, Germany. The German city of Bonn is hosting major United Nations-led climate talks from today till Nov 17. Thousands of people took to the streets of Bon...

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BELEK, Turkey: Justin Rose set up a thrilling finale to the European Tour campaign by winning the US$7 million Turkish Airlines Open on Sunday (Nov 5) to claim his second victory in eight days. The world number six, who overcame an eight-shot deficit in the final round to triumph at l...

Political change of some sort in Cambodia has an aura of inevitability since the 2013 elections. This is an aura that the CNRP has fought hard to project, and which the CPP has now unravelled. The CPP is gambling on the presumption that the 44 per cent of voters whose votes were inval...

For the adventurous foodies, you can look up the ”Salted Egg Shiok” map to check out the tempting salted egg dishes on our sunny island and their locations. Need some Salted Egg zhi char dishes for dinner after work? You can check it out.

CAMP DARAPANAN, Philippines: For 20 years, peace talks have been taking place in the southern Philippines between the national government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest armed group on Mindanao island with some 12,000 men in its fold. Guided by its leader, Al...

THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) plans to set further requirements in cybersecurity, with its managing director Ravi Menon pointing to cybersecurity risks posed by banks going digital. "The use of technology is not going to take off if we have not successfully addressed the c...

RIYADH: A Saudi prince was killed on Sunday (Nov 5) when a helicopter with several officials on board crashed near the kingdom's southern border with war-torn Yemen, state television said. The news channel Al-Ekhbariya announced the death of Prince Mansour bin Muqrin, the deputy gover...

In July last year, the Hitler-influenced Satoshi Uematsu, then 26, went on a stabbing rampage at a home for the disabled in Sagamihara, north of Tokyo. The attack left 19 dead and 26 others injured in what was the bloodiest crime in post-war Japan. Uematsu, who was sacked by the facil...

WASHINGTON • Former United States president George H.W. Bush voted for Mrs Hillary Clinton in last year's election and called Mr Donald Trump a "blowhard" who was driven by "a certain ego". His son George W. Bush left his ballot blank and said of Mr Trump: "This guy doesn't know what ...

GEORGE TOWN (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Putrajaya has mobilised the police and the military to help with the Penang flood situation, says Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister said the personnel forces were deployed at 8.30am Sunday (Nov 5) to help with...

Breakfast at hotel and drive back to Medan . Enroute visit to Shwedagon Pagoda at Taman Alam Lumbini, Graha Annai Velangkani (recorded as the world's second temple – style church after church Velangkani in India). Upon arrival in Medan, lunch at local restaurant. After lunch, city tou...

It is 4.30am on a Saturday and Raja*, 35, is sprawled on the Marina Bay Waterfront Promenade in Singapore, watching a YouTube clip on his mobile phone. He’s had a long night and there’s still some time to go – the migrant worker from Chennai in India is waiting for subway services to ...

SINGAPORE - It is "not by bread alone" that we can grow as human beings, said Singaporean poet Anne Lee Tzu Pheng on Sunday (Nov 5) at the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF). "Poetry does not feed a physical hunger," she said. "But I persisted because of how it has allowed me to develop...

GEORGE TOWN — As flash floods strike Penang with increasing regularity, Twitter users recorded their fears over the latest storm that brought heavy rain and fierce winds, and worry over family and friends affected. Trending hashtags are led by #PrayForPenang, inundating social media w...

RIYADH (NYTIMES) - Saudi Arabia announced the arrest Saturday (Nov 4) night of prominent billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, plus at least 10 other princes, four ministers and tens of former ministers. The announcement of the arrests was made over Al-Arabiya, the Saudi-own...

Cartoonist Sonny Liew, 43, came to Singapore from Seremban, Malaysia, when he was five and became a Singaporean about five years ago, when he was working on his acclaimed graphic novel, The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye. The defining moment was Singapore's 2011 General Election. "It w...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia arrested 10 princes and dozens of former government ministers on Saturday (Nov 4), reports said, in a major purge immediately after an anti-corruption commission was established. Separately, the powerful heads of the Saudi National Guard, an elite internal securit...

SINGAPORE - In the past, people diagnosed with HIV/Aids had to be cremated within 24 hours of dying and their families were denied a proper send off. For four years, the Action for Aids group lobbied against this rule, succeeding finally in 2000 when the Health Ministry allowed bereav...

We’re hosting a one day conference of Identity & Artificial Intelligence for the FinTech, HealthTech & broader IOT industries, discussing policy, ethics, practice and transformative technology. The world’s best thinkers, entrepreneurs and practitioners in technology will be in Singapo...

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